Naturally Lower Blood Pressure

What if you had high blood pressure? There is the threat that you could be put on medication, which could be for the rest of your life. That doesn't sound very appealing, in fact, in reality it is not very appealing, especially when you take into account the amount of possible side effects that you could suffer from as a result of having to live with taking medication on a daily basis.

What if you were told that you could lower your hypertension naturally and not told by just anyone, but by a Doctor? This would make you happy, no need to take medication and risk those dreaded side effects. So ask yourself, given the option to naturally lower your blood pressure, would you take it or would your Doctor have to prescribe you with the blood pressure medication.

Most people will jump at the chance to bring it down naturally, but surprisingly many of them will end up on the medicine. The reason being is that if you want to lower your hypertension yourself then you have to make some changes to your lifestyle and this is where many people fail.

Doctors agree that most people could lower their blood pressure themselves through lifestyle changes and research shows that most do not achieve it because they don't make the effort to change. The Nurse at my own Doctors office told me when I reduced my own high blood pressure, that I was one of only two people that she had treated for hypertension that has changed my lifestyle enough to avoid medication.

My changes were not huge, the biggest one being exercise and I now do regular exercise, which has come with an added bonus because my body is a lot more toned than it used to be and there are no fat bits bulging out anywhere. But doing exercise on a regular basis takes commitment and effort.

If you happen to be overweight and have high blood pressure then you could lower it just by losing some weight. The kind of foods that we eat can also have an affect as well. So the bottom line is that it can boil down to your effort to make changes to your lifestyle or medication, which one will you choose.